Jakarta Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform.

Jakarta Lucene is an open source project available for free download from Apache Jakarta. Please use the links on the left to access Lucene.

12 June 2002 - Lucene 1.2 Final Released

The Lucene Team is proud to announce the release of Lucene 1.2. This is the first production release of Lucene since it moved to the Apache project. This release contains many features and bug fixes over the previous 1.0.2 release - see CHANGES.txt for details. Binary and source distributions are available here.

Lucene v1.02 released

This release repackages Lucene as a product of the Apache Software Foundation. Download it here.

Lucene Joins Jakarta

The Lucene Team is happy to announce that Lucene is now a part of the Apache Jakarta Project. This move will help Lucene continue to grow, and enhance its position as the leading server-side searching solution for Java.

The goal of the Apache Jakarta Project is to provide commercial-quality server solutions, based on the Java Platform, developed in an open and cooperative fashion.